Actor David Threlfall, best known for playing the feckless Frank Gallagher in Channel 4's Shameless, is to tackle one of ...

Musical Fun Home will receive its regional premiere at the Royal Exchange in Manchester as part of a season of work marking ...

Author Richard Engling will launch his new novel The Very Last Production of King Lear at The Book Cellar in Chicago on ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. The timeless tragedy, King Lear, is set to take center stage at the ...

Richard Wilson gives us a haughty, dismissive old Lear - Craig Fleming Clive Brill’s production, while relatively no-frills, is a treat, as well as being a potential blueprint for BBC radio drama.

Physical media collectors, take note. The Criterion Collection has announced six new Blu-ray releases coming in February 2025, including titles from some of today’s most beloved auteurs and one ...

The play incorporated dialect poetry by Ahmad Fouad Negm and music by the renowned Egyptian composer Rageh Daoud. It was this ...

It is a common reflex to reach for Aristotle’s Poetics to determine what a good tragedy should be. Aristotle says there are good reasons to enjoy a good tragedy, especially if its ergon or telos (its ...

The annual Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival celebrates its 25th anniversary season with its first production of William Shakespeare's powerful tragedy "King Lear," running Aug. 21-31. The play tells ...

A condensed all-female production of Shakespeare’s King Lear reimagines the Bard’s darkest masterpiece as a compelling ...

When the apocalypse comes, it will not arrive on the heels of a dreadful, cataclysmic clap of thunder. The earth will revolt in millimeter increments until we are frogs content to sit in a pot of ...